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Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data from 30 partner institutions, raised $320M from Regeneron, Illumina, and others at a $1B+ valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data from 30 partner institutions, raised 0M from Regeneron, Illumina, and others at a B+ valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data from 30 partner institutions, raised $320M from Regeneron, Illumina, and others at a $1B+ valuation — Seattle-area health data company Truveta announced $320 million in fresh funding and an… Continue Reading →

14/01/2025

Roy Austin, Meta’s VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel, announces he is leaving the company at the end of March 2025, after joining in January 2021 (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Alex Heath / The Verge: Roy Austin, Meta’s VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel, announces he is leaving the company at the end of March 2025, after joining in January 2021 — Meta’s head of civil rights is… Continue Reading →

11/01/2025

Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070, available starting in January (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a ,999 RTX 5090, a 9 RTX 5080, a 9 RTX 5070 Ti, and a 9 RTX 5070, available starting in January (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia reveals the RTX 50-series Blackwell GPUs: a $1,999 RTX 5090, a $999 RTX 5080, a $749 RTX 5070 Ti, and a $549 RTX 5070, available starting in January — Nvidia is officially announcing its… Continue Reading →

07/01/2025

Belgium-based Swave Photonics, which is developing its Holographic eXtended Reality platform for smart glasses and heads-up displays, raised a $28.27M Series A (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Belgium-based Swave Photonics, which is developing its Holographic eXtended Reality platform for smart glasses and heads-up displays, raised a $28.27M Series A — Swave Photonics, a holographic display company, has raised $28.27 million in funding as… Continue Reading →

04/01/2025

Samsung invests $181M in South Korean robot maker Rainbow Robotics, boosting its stake to 35%, and launches a Future Robotics Office reporting to the CEO (Reuters)

Samsung invests 1M in South Korean robot maker Rainbow Robotics, boosting its stake to 35%, and launches a Future Robotics Office reporting to the CEO (Reuters)

Reuters: Samsung invests $181M in South Korean robot maker Rainbow Robotics, boosting its stake to 35%, and launches a Future Robotics Office reporting to the CEO — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) became the largest shareholder of South Korea’s Rainbow Robotics (277810.KQ),… Continue Reading →

31/12/2024

A look at the EU’s common charging regulations, which come into force on Dec. 28 and cover USB-C ports, fast charging, unbundling of charging bricks, and more (Callum Booth/The Verge)

Callum Booth / The Verge: A look at the EU’s common charging regulations, which come into force on Dec. 28 and cover USB-C ports, fast charging, unbundling of charging bricks, and more — The common charging standard brings USB PD… Continue Reading →

28/12/2024

xAI announces it raised a $6B Series C from a16z, BlackRock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others, at a reported valuation of at least $40B (Antonio Pequeño IV/Forbes)

xAI announces it raised a B Series C from a16z, BlackRock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others, at a reported valuation of at least B (Antonio Pequeño IV/Forbes)

Antonio Pequeño IV / Forbes: xAI announces it raised a $6B Series C from a16z, BlackRock, Fidelity, Kingdom Holdings, Sequoia, Nvidia, and others, at a reported valuation of at least $40B — Elon Musk’s xAI announced Monday it raised $6… Continue Reading →

24/12/2024

Sources: OpenAI’s GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI’s GPT-5, codenamed Orion, is behind schedule and faces technical hurdles, including high computing costs and limited high-quality training data — OpenAI has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project,… Continue Reading →

21/12/2024

Pune, India-based industrial AI startup Haber raised a $44M Series C, including $38M in equity and $6M in debt, led by Creaegis, BEENEXT, and Accel (FinSMEs)

Pune, India-based industrial AI startup Haber raised a M Series C, including M in equity and M in debt, led by Creaegis, BEENEXT, and Accel (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Pune, India-based industrial AI startup Haber raised a $44M Series C, including $38M in equity and $6M in debt, led by Creaegis, BEENEXT, and Accel — Haber, a Pune, India-based smart manufacturing startup, raised $44m in Series C funding… Continue Reading →

17/12/2024

MicroStrategy, Palantir, and Axon will join the Nasdaq 100 index, effective before the market open on December 23; Super Micro will be removed from the index (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: MicroStrategy, Palantir, and Axon will join the Nasdaq 100 index, effective before the market open on December 23; Super Micro will be removed from the index — MicroStrategy, the preferred high beta play on the price… Continue Reading →

14/12/2024

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